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2011-11-16
Matrox Video Products Group today announced the appointment of Japan Material Co. Ltd. as the exclusive distributor of its end-user products in Japan. Japan Material will represent the full line of Matrox video products, including the popular Matrox MXO2 I/O devices, the new Mojito MAX I/O card, the Convert DVI scan converters, and the MC-100 SDI-to-HDMI mini converter.
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2011-11-15
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MC-100, a dual SDI-to-HDMI mini converter that supports a wide range of display resolutions through 3G, Dual Link, HD, and SD-SDI, is now available from Matrox dealers worldwide. Priced at $495 US, this single portable unit can be used as an HD-SDI switcher, a distribution amplifier, a multiplexer, and a 3D processing unit, making it the most versatile mini converter on the market.
Matrox MC-100

2011-11-03
Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for Avid Media Composer version 6 with the entire range of Matrox MXO2 I/O devices and the new Matrox Mojito MAX card. Not only do Matrox I/O products provide broadcast-quality input and output, they also lets users deliver H.264 files for the web, mobile devices, and Blu-ray up to five times faster than software alone, without sacrificing quality. Other important features include 10-bit hardware scaling, inexpensive HD monitoring with the exclusive Matrox HDMI Calibration Utility, and 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound monitoring using professional connections.
Matrox MXO2 / Matrox Mojito MAX

2011-11-03
Matrox Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of Matrox Mojito MAX, an SDI/HDMI/analog HD/SD video and professional audio I/O card that includes an onboard Matrox MAX H.264 encoding accelerator.
Matrox Mojito MAX

2011-09-27
Matrox Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of Thunderbolt-enabled Matrox MXO2 I/O devices as well as Thunderbolt adapters for existing customers. Developed by Intel with collaboration from Apple, Thunderbolt is a high-speed I/O technology running at 10 gigabits per second that brings together high-speed data transfer and high-definition (HD) display on to a single cable. Thunderbolt is currently available on all new Macs. The Matrox MXO2 devices provide broadcast-quality video and audio capture, monitoring, output, and H.264 encoding for use with leading editing and content creation applications.
Matrox MXO2

2011-09-26
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that its Matrox MC-100, a dual SDI-to-HDMI mini converter that supports a wide range of display resolutions through 3G, Dual Link, HD, and SD-SDI, is the recipient of a 2011 STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award, given by the editorial staff of TV Technology Europe magazine at the 2011 IBC convention.
Matrox MC-100

2011-09-08
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox MC-100, a dual SDI to HDMI mini converter that supports a wide range of display resolutions through 3G, Dual Link, HD, and SD-SDI. Priced at $495, this single portable unit can be used as an HD-SDI switcher, a distribution amplifier, a multiplexer, and a 3D processing unit, making it the most versatile mini converter on the market.
Matrox MC-100

2011-09-08
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Mac support for the award-winning Matrox Convert DVI and Convert DVI Plus HD-SDI scan converters. These devices let broadcasters easily and economically take the computer-based content that is quickly becoming a key part of the nightly news to air. They are ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype, YouTube, Google Earth, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as citizen journalists' mobile phone videos. Matrox Convert DVI scan converters are also the perfect appliances to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship.
Matrox Convert DVI / Matrox Convert DVI Plus

2011-09-08
Matrox Video Products Group today announced a new addition to the Matrox DSX Developer Products family — the Matrox Xmio2 Plus card. An advanced multi-channel HD and SD I/O card, Matrox Xmio2 Plus introduces a new innovation, the Matrox Control Engine (MCE) which couples the predictability of a pipelined architecture to the flexibility of a memory-centric architecture to enable sophisticated failsafe functionality for rock-solid broadcast output. Matrox Xmio2 Plus also provides multi-layer scaling, multi-layer compositing, multi-channel frame synchronization with audio resampling, and other features OEMs need to build high-performance digital media systems.
Matrox Xmio2 Plus

2011-09-08
Matrox Video Products Group and Gallery today announced a next-generation broadcast ingest platform that combines Gallery SIENNA PictureReady software running on a Mac mini with a Thunderbolt technology enabled Matrox MXO2 I/O device to deliver a high-performance, reliable video ingest solution in a compact form factor.
Matrox MXO2

2011-09-01
Matrox Video Products Group today announced an innovative workflow that incorporates a StreamCell live video streaming system and a Matrox Convert DVI Plus scan converter to provide a complete, simple ENG solution.
Matrox Convert DVI Plus

2011-08-31
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that broadcast equipment manufacturer Howard Zuckerman & Assoc. Inc. has chosen the Matrox Xmio2 card, part of the Matrox DSX family of developer products, as the heart of its ScoreBox graphics generation system.
Matrox Xmio2

2011-08-30
At IBC2011, Matrox Video Products Group and PROMISE Technology, Inc. will demonstrate multi-layer realtime editing of uncompressed HD projects using Matrox MXO2 LE MAX video I/O devices and PROMISE Pegasus RAID storage connected to the latest Apple iMac via the all-new Thunderbolt technology.
Matrox MXO2 LE MAX

2011-07-26
Matrox Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) drivers for the Matrox MXO2 and Matrox MXO2 MAX families of I/O devices and well as the Matrox MXO monitoring/output device and the Matrox CompressHD H.264 accelerator card.
Matrox MXO2 / Matrox MXO / Matrox CompressHD

2011-07-14
Telestream and Matrox Video Products Group today announced that London-based Ellegy Ltd. has deployed Matrox Multi-Ingest video capture card and Telestream Wirecast Pro live webcasting software to capture and stream live Web coverage of the International GT Open car championship races in seven countries across Europe. Ellegy Ltd. is a promotion and media production company that specializes in motorsports. Upon being named the official advertising agency for the International GT Open in January 2011, Ellegy decided to expand its media services to include a live program dedicated specifically to Web distribution.
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2011-06-29
With the introduction of Matrox's first product Video RAM (a specialized video display device for first-generation microcomputers) in 1976, co-founders Branko Matic and Lorne Trottier launched a company that has continued to develop innovative, industry-leading products over the last 35 years. The company's three divisions — Matrox Graphics, Matrox Imaging, and Matrox Video — now provide specialized hardware and software solutions for use in an array of professional markets, including media and entertainment, finance, digital signage, medical imaging, manufacturing, factory automation, security, government, and enterprise computing.
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2011-06-21
Matrox Video Products Group today announced the availability of new software releases for the Matrox MXO2 product line for Mac and PC. Highlights of the new releases include support for Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, capture support for Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder, and presets for new H.264 encoding parameters in Adobe Media Encoder.
Matrox MXO2

2011-06-16
Matrox to showcase a full range of editing, streaming, H.264 encoding, and scan converter products at Broadcast Asia 2011
Matrox Convert DVI Plus / Matrox MXO2

2011-06-15
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox Convert DVI Plus, an SD/HD SDI scan converter with high-end features priced at just $1495 US, will be demonstrated at InfoComm 2011 in booth 4063 of the Orange County Convention Center, June 15-17. Matrox Convert DVI Plus lets broadcasters easily and economically take the computer-based content that is quickly becoming a key part of the nightly news to air. It's ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype, YouTube, Google Earth, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as citizen journalists' mobile phone videos. Matrox Convert DVI Plus is also the perfect appliance to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship.
Matrox Convert DVI Plus

2011-04-11
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2 devices featuring the all-new Thunderbolt technology developed by Intel and brought to market with collaboration from Apple. Thunderbolt technology is a high-speed I/O technology running at 10 gigabits per second that brings together high-speed data transfer and high-definition (HD) display on to a single cable. It is currently available on the Apple MacBook Pro line. The Matrox MXO2 devices provide broadcast-quality video and audio capture, monitoring, output, and H.264 encoding for use with leading editing and content creation applications.
Matrox MXO2

2011-04-11
Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium software with the Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices. The award-winning Matrox MXO2 devices provide cross-platform Mac and Windows support and can be easily moved among desktop systems in a facility, installed in an OB van, or taken on the road with a laptop. Key features include: full-resolution, full frame rate, multi-layer, realtime video editing via Matrox RT technology; lightning fast H.264 file creation for smart phones, iPad, the web, and Blu-ray via Matrox MAX technology; and professional audio and video input and output with 10-bit hardware up/down/cross conversion. In addition, the Matrox MXO2 devices ship with a variety of productivity enhancing applications: Matrox A/V Tools (PC) for fast capture/ playback of audio, video, and still frames, Matrox MAX H.264 Capture (PC) for direct capture to H.264 files, Matrox Vetura Capture (Mac) for quick and easy capture to a variety of QuickTime codecs, and Matrox Vetura Playback (Mac) for convenient playback of H.264 and .mov files.
Matrox MXO2

2011-04-11
Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder software with Matrox MXO2 I/O devices. The Matrox MXO2 family offers a full range of capture hardware solutions ideal for feeding live content to Adobe Flash Media Server software. Applications include field journalism, sports, live events, and distance learning. The MXO2 devices work with any system – Mac or PC, laptop or desktop – and let users connect to any HD or SD video source via SDI, HDMI, or analog. Support for Windows is provided via a Microsoft DirectShow driver and support for Mac OS is provided via QuickTime. Live video streams can reach viewers on multiple devices using all protocols supported by Adobe Flash including RTMP, HTTP or Multicast.
Matrox MXO2

2011-04-11
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that two new cards and significant new software features have been added to the Matrox DSX Developer Products family. The new X.264io card is a PCIe card that offers an SDI input with an onboard H.264 hardware encoder and a single program transport stream ASI output. The new XMIO2/12/8K/D card features Matrox's advanced motion adaptive deinterlacing technology and multi-directional anti-aliasing filtering which yields perfect progressive representations of interlaced fields.
Matrox X.264io / Matrox XMIO2/12/8K/D

2011-04-11
AmberFin and Matrox Video Products Group today announced that support for the Apple ProRes codec has been integrated into the award-winning AmberFin iCR range, allowing iCR users to encode to ProRes during ingest and transcode to ProRes for delivery. This allows users of Final Cut Pro to benefit from the comprehensive range of iCR's ingest, transcoding, review, QC, format conversion, and standards conversion toolset. AmberFin iCR products are powered by the Matrox Xmio2 card, part of the Matrox DSX family of developer products.
Matrox DSX

2011-03-28
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox Convert DVI Plus, an SD/HD SDI scan converter with high-end features priced at just $1495 US, is available worldwide. Matrox Convert DVI Plus lets broadcasters easily and economically take the computer-based content that is quickly becoming a key part of the nightly news to air. It's ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype, YouTube, Google Earth, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as citizen journalists' mobile phone videos. Matrox Convert DVI Plus is also the perfect appliance to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship.
Matrox Convert DVI Plus

2011-03-23
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Tightrope Media Systems has chosen the Matrox Xmio2 card, part of the Matrox DSX family of developer products, as the heart of its ZEPLAY instant replay server. ZEPLAY gives operators complete control over four streams of SD or HD video, as they are recorded to hard disk. Each stream may play back from -200% to +200% speed as well as shuttle and jog. ZEPLAY also provides the operator with an extremely fast highlight package editor, external clip import and playback, and versatile play export capability. ZEPLAY's interface organizes this information with built-in multi-viewers, clip tagging, timecode information, and a graphical timeline called the "playbar". Target applications include: pro, semi-pro, and college stadiums; second and third tier production trucks; and higher-end installations that require traditional options as the primary source for replay but need a backup or secondary replay unit.
Matrox DSX

2011-03-22
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MAX H.264 Capture is now available. Matrox MAX H.264 Capture is a stand-alone Windows application that lets users capture directly to H.264 files for use on smart phones, iPad, the web, and Blu-ray discs using any Matrox MXO2 product equipped with Matrox MAX technology. Material can be captured from video and audio input on an MXO2 device and simultaneously monitored. Matrox MAX H.264 Capture is quick and easy-to-use with default presets for many popular delivery formats. It also provides the ability for the user to create custom presets. Video can be captured to the .mp4 file wrapper for the web, iPad, and other popular H.264 deliverables or to .264 elementary stream files for immediate Blu-ray authoring without transcoding.
Matrox MAX H.264 Capture

2011-02-15
Matrox Video Products Group today announced support for the newly released Avid Media Composer V5.5 editing system. Matrox MXO2 Mini turns a user's HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with unique color calibration tools. The small, lightweight, external box is ideal for file-based workflows in studio, on set, in the field and in OB vans. It provides HDMI, analog component, S-Video, and composite output and cross-platform support for Macs and PCs, laptops and workstations. Users can also take advantage of the Matrox Vetura Capture application for quick and easy capture to Avid DNxHD or other popular Avid-supported codecs. Media Composer V5.5 adds support for new 720p and 1080p workflows with Matrox MXO2 Mini including the ability to select PsF or true P output in 1080p modes.
Matrox MXO2 Mini

2011-01-25
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox Convert DVI Plus, an SD/HD SDI scan converter with high-end features priced at just $1495 US. Matrox Convert DVI Plus lets broadcasters easily and economically take the computer-based content that is quickly becoming a key part of the nightly news to air. It's ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype, YouTube, Google Earth, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as citizen journalists' mobile phone videos. Matrox Convert DVI Plus is also the perfect appliances to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship.
Matrox Convert DVI Plus






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